COLLECTION NAME:
Rare and Distinctive Collections Moving Image Film and Video
Record
Collection Name:
Rare and Distinctive Collections Moving Image Film and Video
Title:
Scenes in Turkey, 2 of 2
Name:
Maxson, John H. (John Haviland), 1906-1966
Resource Type:
Moving image
Genre:
Amateur films
Genre:
Travelogues (Motion pictures)
Genre:
silent films
Date Created:
Circa 1936/1937
Language Term:
English
Extent:
1 film reel (14min., 51sec.)
Form:
black-and-white film (film, material)
Form:
16mm (photographic film size)
Abstract:
Title on container: 'Turkey, No. 2 / 4827." Hand-edited travel film, featuring views of Turkish landmarks and Kurdish people (ca. 1935/1939), with descriptive titles (ca. 1937/1944). Images include the Fountain of Shimak in Kurdistan and the Bridge of Sekeret; Kurdish people near Lake Van plowing, threshing, and making bulgar wheat; "Little America," a "drill camp" in Southeastern Turkey; and Kurdish villagers dancing.
Note:
00:00:04 Opening credits "In Kuridistan. Fountain of Shirnak." 00:00:09 One child, two women, and one men with a donkey getting water. 00:00:34 Two-person carrying heavy bags. 00:00:45 People carrying vases, and water containers. 00:01:15 Two girls filling jars with water. 00:01:50 One boy looking at girls and women with water containers; Credits "The Bridge of Sekeret." 00:02:02 Three persons crossing a stone and fragile bridge. 00:02:44 Credits "Plowing near Lake Van." 00:02:50 Six mules and two men working, plowing the soul. 00:03:35 Mountain with snow at the back and three men working on the soil with their six mules. 00:04:19 Credits "Primitive metods of threshing." Four persons and a herd. 00:04:40 A man fixing the straw around cows and bulls; behind a hill. 00:05:16 A man fixing a pile of straw, two men and one child handling the cows. 00:05:42 Credits "Making 'bulgur', a wheat staple." 00:05:49 A group of men with hammers hitting on the soil, two kids looking sitting on the ground. 00:06:09 A child enter the scene looking at the camera. 00:07:14 Two women on the ground fix the mixture the men are hammering outdoor; 07:37 Stop hammering. 00:07:43 Credits "Little America", drill camp in southeastern Turkey."; A simple power line and a two wing house. 00:08:08 A row of houses and hills behind. An oil well construction and smoke. 00:08:59 Credits "Native women posed unwillingly." 00:09:07 A man, a woman, children, and a young girl looking at the camera. 00:09:16 Credits "Our cook, Suleyman, encourages a dance." 00:09:29 A group of seven men dancing and one man playing the flute. 00:10:04 Men dancing around the flute man. 00:10:12 Kurdish villages' dance. 00:10:24 Two men dancing, one moves an oil lamp from the scene, one man playing an instrument. 00:10:35 Three men with a mustache in front of a stand, one of them is singing. 00:11:45 Twelve men sitting on the ground and five of them have big hammers. Two men up and one of them with an instrument. 00:11:51 One man dancing and many other watching. 00:12:27 Man with instrument playing and dancing. 00:13:04 One man at the back standing with a hammer. 00:13:24 One man dancing and squatting with other watching and one playing an instrument. 00:13:56 Two men dancing altogether, one musician and two men at the back surrounded by trees. 00:14:52 End of recording.
Note Type:
Segment sequence
Note:
Collection of origin: University of Colorado Museum Collection/Maxson Films
Subject Topic:
Threshing
Subject Topic:
Folk dancing
Subject Topic:
Plowing
Subject Topic:
Water-supply, Rural
Subject Geographic:
Lake Van (Turkey, Asia) (lake)
Identifier:
U183045058381_narv_cuMuseum_sceneInTurkey2of2_a.mp4
Physical Location:
University of Colorado Boulder Libraries Rare and Distinctive Collections
Shelf Locator:
COU: 1111
Date Captured:
2022
Internet Media Type:
video/mp4
Digital Origin:
reformatted digital
Access Condition:
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